The story
- Old English · inherited fromsadulboga
- Middle English · inherited fromsadel-bowe
- English todaysaddle bow
From Middle English sadel-bowe, sadel-boȝe, from Old English sadulboga, sadolboga, equivalent to saddle + bow. Displaced non-native arson (“saddle bow”), from Middle English arsoun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.